Cargoes (after Masefield)

Many thanks for the provocative review, Alcuin. Interesting - the comment
about the "play off" - so we're not to bounce off the original unless we can trump or equal it?
If I could trump Masefield I wouldn't we writing here (no disrespect intended)!!
As to the original, I've always read it as a pithy counterpoint between Romanticism/exoticism
and the utilitarian/prosaic; dreams against reality; the real against the ideal. While Masefield allowed
for both, I suggest the former is almost entirely negated. The piece is an extension but very much of our times - Masefield
had little caude to make reference to carbon footprints or illegal immigration!
Now "I must go down to the sea again/the lonely sea and the sky"...Rgds.,Alan